Grosvenor Grammar School

Grosvenor is a co-educational, inter-denominational grammar school at Marina Park in east Belfast, taking children from eleven to eighteen on a thirty-four acre site. It is one of the larger Belfast grammars and one of the youngest. Entry is at Year 8 through the SEAG assessment.

It opened in 1945 as Grosvenor High School, with 112 pupils, on Roden Street. It moved to Orangefield in 1958 and became Grosvenor Grammar School in 1993. In 2010 it moved again, to the present building at Marina Park, which is where the space comes from: a four hundred metre running track, three rugby pitches, two synthetic hockey pitches and four tennis courts. The science and technology block is named after a former principal who ran the school for two decades. For the school's eightieth anniversary in January 2025, Belfast City Hall was lit up in its colours.

The timetable is worth a look before you plan your week. Mondays to Wednesdays run from a quarter to nine to twenty past three, ten short periods a day. Thursdays and Fridays drop the separate form time and finish at five to three instead. Break and lunch are staggered by age, so the junior years and the senior years are never in the canteen at the same time. New pupils have an induction evening in June before they start, the Year 8 form tutors are picked and trained for that year specifically, and each Year 8 class is offered a residential. The school's own line is that happiness breeds success.